Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,600 6,280 7,215
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.10% 23.17% 19.54%
As % of the General category 34.52% 36.29% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,464 4,228 5,016
10th Percentile £359 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 112 227
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.42 £13.31
25th Percentile £19.69 £20.97 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.13 £36.51 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% +13.69% +5.72%
75th Percentile £57.62 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.13 £69.60
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £32.50 £31.47
% change year-on-year +30.15% +3.27% +3.60%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,910 17,305 21,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.31% 63.84% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,047 11,096 13,517
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.41% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,799 887 1,721
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.25 £13.18
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.39 £16.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.21 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -17.72% +8.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.08 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.17 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.63% -16.41% +6.42%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,153 £575 -4.17% 2,383
North of England 0 1,336 £500 +7.18% 709
South East 0 735 £500 -4.76% 880
North West +3 698 £475 +5.56% 357
Midlands +1 671 £500 +11.11% 425
Yorkshire 0 587 £525 +7.69% 265
West Midlands +1 496 £500 +1.63% 234
South West -4 384 £525 -4.55% 259
East of England +6 211 £525 -6.67% 225
East Midlands 0 167 £494 +15.16% 190
North East -15 52 £500 +13.96% 96
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 296 (3.44%) Confluence
2 209 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 80 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 69 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 49 (0.57%) Apache
6 43 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) SAS
8 28 (0.33%) CMS
9 24 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.17%) CICS
11 14 (0.16%) IIS
12 13 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 12 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 11 (0.13%) Camunda
14 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.081%) Appian
16 6 (0.070%) Hyperledger
17 5 (0.058%) WebLogic
18 4 (0.047%) HCL Notes
18 4 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 459 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 159 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 104 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 37 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.058%) Sketch
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.047%) Trello
10 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 2 (0.023%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.023%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.023%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 325 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (1.28%) NetSuite
3 103 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
4 89 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
5 77 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
6 69 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 50 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 50 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
8 47 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
9 41 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
10 39 (0.45%) Aladdin
11 36 (0.42%) SAP FI
12 30 (0.35%) Workday HCM
13 28 (0.33%) SAP CO
14 27 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
15 26 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
15 26 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
16 23 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
17 21 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,366 (15.88%) Azure
2 1,002 (11.65%) AWS
3 578 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 445 (5.17%) GCP
5 293 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
6 292 (3.40%) SaaS
7 254 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
8 240 (2.79%) GitHub
9 194 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 181 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 178 (2.07%) Entra ID
12 136 (1.58%) Serverless
13 116 (1.35%) Amazon S3
14 99 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 99 (1.15%) Power Automate
15 95 (1.10%) dbt
16 92 (1.07%) OCI
17 90 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
18 88 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
19 87 (1.01%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 165 (1.92%) Firewall
2 134 (1.56%) Network Security
3 82 (0.95%) VPN
4 78 (0.91%) DNS
5 59 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 51 (0.59%) WAN
7 42 (0.49%) BGP
8 37 (0.43%) SSL
9 35 (0.41%) DHCP
9 35 (0.41%) LAN
10 31 (0.36%) HTTP
11 29 (0.34%) Multicast
11 29 (0.34%) OSPF
12 23 (0.27%) MPLS
13 22 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (0.26%) Internet
14 18 (0.21%) VLAN
15 17 (0.20%) Wireless
16 16 (0.19%) DMZ
16 16 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (5.74%) Power BI
2 254 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 237 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 170 (1.98%) Metadata
5 166 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
6 152 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 130 (1.51%) Tableau
8 121 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 82 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 74 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 64 (0.74%) Big Data
13 59 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 52 (0.60%) MongoDB
15 50 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
16 47 (0.55%) Power Query
17 45 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 44 (0.51%) Delta Lake
19 42 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
20 39 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 611 (7.10%) JIRA
2 225 (2.62%) Git
3 159 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.07%) GitLab
5 54 (0.63%) JUnit
6 46 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 42 (0.49%) Selenium
8 28 (0.33%) Postman
8 28 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (0.27%) ERwin
9 23 (0.27%) REST Assured
9 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 21 (0.24%) Maven
11 20 (0.23%) MLflow
12 17 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
13 16 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
14 15 (0.17%) Gradle
General
1 2,518 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 1,629 (18.94%) Banking
3 1,185 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 488 (5.67%) Public Sector
5 400 (4.65%) Legal
6 340 (3.95%) Financial Institution
7 326 (3.79%) Investment Banking
8 317 (3.69%) Front Office
9 297 (3.45%) Retail
10 294 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
11 222 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
12 205 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
13 159 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 159 (1.85%) Local Government
14 152 (1.77%) Manufacturing
15 142 (1.65%) Billing
16 139 (1.62%) General Ledger
17 133 (1.55%) Marketing
18 126 (1.47%) Law
19 119 (1.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,265 (14.71%) Analyst
2 954 (11.09%) Senior
3 931 (10.83%) Lead
4 865 (10.06%) Developer
5 806 (9.37%) Architect
6 644 (7.49%) Business Analyst
7 628 (7.30%) Project Manager
8 552 (6.42%) Consultant
9 304 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
10 296 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 221 (2.57%) Senior Manager
12 203 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
13 183 (2.13%) Accountant
13 183 (2.13%) Java Developer
14 181 (2.10%) Data Analyst
15 169 (1.97%) IT Manager
15 169 (1.97%) Programme Manager
16 167 (1.94%) Software Engineer
17 162 (1.88%) Finance Manager
18 157 (1.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (3.13%) REST
2 258 (3.00%) .NET
3 254 (2.95%) React
4 237 (2.76%) Kafka
5 190 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 182 (2.12%) Middleware
7 161 (1.87%) Spring
8 150 (1.74%) Spring Boot
9 121 (1.41%) RESTful
10 110 (1.28%) Redux
11 109 (1.27%) PySpark
12 107 (1.24%) Node.js
13 85 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 80 (0.93%) JSON
15 78 (0.91%) OAuth
16 69 (0.80%) XML
17 62 (0.72%) CSS
18 59 (0.69%) .NET Framework
18 59 (0.69%) HTML
19 58 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 419 (4.87%) Onboarding
2 384 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 364 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 241 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 209 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 196 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 164 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 163 (1.90%) Fixed Income
9 160 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 158 (1.84%) Derivative
11 151 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 144 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 135 (1.57%) Virtual Team
14 119 (1.38%) Equities
15 116 (1.35%) AI Agents
16 114 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
17 104 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
18 103 (1.20%) Public Cloud
19 99 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
20 93 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 298 (3.47%) Windows
2 261 (3.03%) Linux
3 144 (1.67%) Unix
4 66 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.44%) Solaris
6 35 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 35 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 34 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.36%) zOS
9 29 (0.34%) Android
10 26 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 18 (0.21%) AIX
12 9 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.093%) VMS
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.047%) MVS
17 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,889 (21.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,775 (20.64%) Agile
3 1,208 (14.05%) Migration
4 1,124 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
5 1,017 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 976 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 940 (10.93%) AI
8 929 (10.80%) DevOps
9 905 (10.52%) CI/CD
10 871 (10.13%) Analytics
11 843 (9.80%) ERP
12 801 (9.31%) Decision-Making
13 740 (8.60%) Roadmaps
14 736 (8.56%) Validation
15 713 (8.29%) Data Modelling
16 705 (8.20%) Project Management
17 665 (7.73%) User Acceptance Testing
18 639 (7.43%) Change Management
19 617 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
20 561 (6.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (13.67%) SQL
2 1,048 (12.19%) Python
3 583 (6.78%) Java
4 362 (4.21%) C#
5 252 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 242 (2.81%) JavaScript
7 207 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 84 (0.98%) Bash
9 81 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 72 (0.84%) Go
11 71 (0.83%) C++
12 70 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 62 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 57 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 50 (0.58%) VBA
16 47 (0.55%) Scala
17 39 (0.45%) Bicep
18 34 (0.40%) Apex Code
19 33 (0.38%) Kotlin
20 26 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 680 (7.91%) Degree
1 680 (7.91%) Security Cleared
2 489 (5.69%) SC Cleared
3 216 (2.51%) PMP
4 195 (2.27%) ACCA
5 192 (2.23%) PMI Certification
6 173 (2.01%) CIMA
7 160 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 146 (1.70%) CISSP
9 125 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 99 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 87 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 82 (0.95%) CISM
13 80 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 65 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
15 53 (0.62%) AWS Certification
16 46 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
17 41 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 37 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 33 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (6.34%) Data Quality
2 369 (4.29%) QA
3 322 (3.74%) PMO
4 283 (3.29%) GDPR
5 156 (1.81%) NIST
6 126 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 107 (1.24%) IFRS
8 102 (1.19%) SLA
9 94 (1.09%) Accessibility
10 93 (1.08%) GRC
11 80 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 60 (0.70%) GAAP
13 58 (0.67%) ISO 20022
14 57 (0.66%) PCI DSS
15 39 (0.45%) SEPA
16 37 (0.43%) Solvency II
17 34 (0.40%) NCSC
18 30 (0.35%) PSD2
19 28 (0.33%) SOC 2
20 25 (0.29%) COBIT
System Software
1 260 (3.02%) Docker
2 187 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 59 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.30%) vSphere
6 20 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) RACF
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.15%) NFS
10 11 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.070%) GPFS
11 6 (0.070%) KVM
12 5 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.047%) IAG
13 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.035%) ACF2
14 3 (0.035%) GridGain
14 3 (0.035%) SRDF
15 2 (0.023%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 384 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 279 (3.24%) Terraform
3 143 (1.66%) Ansible
4 84 (0.98%) Grafana
5 74 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 63 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 52 (0.60%) SCCM
8 48 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.30%) Control-M
10 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.20%) vRealize
11 14 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.16%) Nessus
12 13 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (0.15%) Argo
12 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
13 12 (0.14%) Puppet
14 11 (0.13%) CASB
15 10 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,117 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 713 (8.29%) Oracle
3 665 (7.73%) SAP
4 314 (3.65%) ServiceNow
5 266 (3.09%) Databricks
6 212 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 186 (2.16%) Google
8 129 (1.50%) Workday
9 120 (1.40%) VMware
10 114 (1.33%) Splunk
11 110 (1.28%) IBM
12 95 (1.10%) Cisco
13 93 (1.08%) CyberArk
14 62 (0.72%) Citrix
15 60 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 55 (0.64%) Ariba
17 54 (0.63%) Bloomberg
17 54 (0.63%) Sage
18 50 (0.58%) Informatica
19 49 (0.57%) Murex